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When a guy takes off his coat, he's not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!

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Al McGuire
Age: 72 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 7
Died: 2001
Died: January 26
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It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what's in a box score. A box score does not properly represent the most important thing - team play. It shows some guy scoring 27 points, but it doesn't show that my 27-point man let his guy score 30.
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Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.
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If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven't changed. The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.
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When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn't trying to prove I'm boss. I know I'm boss.
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It's so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying Shhh and not moving a muscle. Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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I'm not saying that they were Einsteins they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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Don't call me son unless you're going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, Son.)
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That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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I just can't recruit where there's grass around. You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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Can't win without talent, you know.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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